The purpose of this study is to perform a description of how Parents experience their life in a stepfamily and to examine how the Parents experience the involvement from their new partner in the children?s upbringing. The issues are: (i) which expectations do the parent has on their new partner in the role as stepparent to the child, (ii) how active does the parent experience their new partners? step parenting concerning the stepchild and (iii) how does the parent expect the new family to take shape? A qualitative study has been done through interviews. The participants were sex biological Parents, of which four were fathers and two mothers.

To investigate adoptions are part of the social worker's duties. The aim of our study was to examine some adoptive Parents, to internationally adopted children, experience of adopting, the time before the adoption, the adoption process, and the time after the adoption. The study is based on qualitative interviews with seven adoptive Parents. Theoretical frameworks that have been used are a phenomenological perspective, the dramaturgical perspective of Goffman and the theory of rites of passage.The result of our study shows that the adoptive Parents have tried ?everything? to be-come Parents in a biological way before they came to the decision to adopt.

A study by Gulistan Kavak has been done about the therapy school, Liljanschool. The school handles children between the ages seven and twelve who suffer from psychosocial problems. These psychosocial problems may be the children?s? experiences of psychological trauma, attachment-difficulties and anxiety. Therapists, teachers, educators and medical professionals work at Liljanschool. The purpose of this thesis is to see how Parents see their children?s? development at the school from there very first day until there last. Three questions have been formulated: How do Parents of the children understand the development of the therapy that Liljanschool contributes with? How do the Parents think that the school situation has been for their children? Do the school staff´s views and the parent´s views differ regarding cooperation between staff, Parents and children?I have done a qualitative study.  In-depth interviews were conducted with the staff of the school and the children?s Parents. The results show that the majority of respondents were positive about the school. The analysis shows that through the extension-theory, the children and Parents have developed together.

Introduction When a child comes into a family changing conditions for the older sibling, who may feel left out. This can be a problem for Parents who face new challenges towards the older sibling, which can lead to Parents looking for advice and support. Parenting is an activity that strengthens the role of Parents and provides information about children's health and social development. Purpose The purpose is to describe the Parents' experiences of support in their parental role by participating in the sibling circle. Method Semi-structured focus group interview was conducted and qualitative content analysis was performed.

The purpose with this final paper was to examine how the collaboration between Parents and teachers can manifest itself. With collaboration, we mean the dialogue that has to exist between Parents and teachers in regards to e.g. how well informed the Parents are about the regulated principles on which the education plan is built on, and in which way they can take part in and influence the system. This is to empathize on the fact that a good collaboration between Parents and teachers help create a good foundation for the pupil?s ability to learn.The method that we have used are questionnaires given to Parents and teachers along with studies of literature both as means of furthering our studies as well as a basis for the design of the questionnaires.

Background: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is a chronical disease that often occurs early in life. In 2005 around 7000 children in Sweden was estimated with type 1 diabetes. When a child gets a chronical disease it affects the whole family. The Parents will be the ones who take the main responsible for the child´s care. Purpose: The aim of this literature review was to describe the Parents experiences of living with a child with type 1 diabetes.

The purpose of the study was to examine if Parents' way ofcommunicating with their children changed after participation in ComAlongcommunicationcourse, and if changes remained over time. The studyinvolved 39 Parents of 25 children with communicative disabilities. 33 of theParents had participated in ComAlong, the other six had not participated, buthad a partner who had participated in the course. Video recorded parentchildinteraction was analyzed and coded with the instrumentKOMMUNIKATIV. Results showed that Parents used a significantly moreresponsive communication style and used significantly more augmentativeand alternative communication after ComAlong.

The aim of this study was to, with a social constructivistic approach, examine how Parents,regarded as neglecting their children, are depicted in 12 LVU-legal cases from the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden. By using a document analysis influenced by discourse analytical tools, we found that there are repeated descriptions of the Parents, which constructs an image of Parents as shortcoming in the care of their children. The categories lack of emotions, mental disorder, substance abuse and physical maltreatment were the main reasons for child neglect that the Parents were described from. Attitudes towards authority, aggression and immaturity, lack of insight, and deficiencies in the home were repeated in the description of the parent. We further found that mothers were regarded as more responsible of the children compared to fathers.

The purpose of this study was to describe experiences in daily social life of Parents of children with psychotic illness. Five Parents with long-term experience of psychotic illness have been interviewed. The frame of reference in emotion theories of Thomas Scheff and Randall Collins have been used to analyze the results. The study is qualitative and has a phenomenological approach to shed lights of meanings in daily social life. The following meanings was found: Openness with certain reservation shows that honesty is important for the feeling of solidarity, Social expectations in daily life describes the Parents´own expectations as well as expectations from others.

Introduction:Children in early age diagnosed with scoliosis and in need of surgery will grow up to undergo several operations in the back. Parents play a major role in the care of their children during hospitalization.Purpose:The purpose of this study was to investigate Parents´ experiences of having a child diagnosed with scoliosis before the age of five undergoing repeated surgeries in the back.Method:The study had a qualitative descriptive design. Five Parents with children aged 5-15 years, who have undergone several operations were interviewed about there experiences of the child?s illness and treatment. Phenomenological-hermeneutical analyze where used.Results:The Parents felt a sense of shock when they were told about their child?s diagnose and treatment.

AbstractMy aim for this study is to examine what the parent?s of the children attending pre-schoolwants to be a part of, by examining the parent?s description of the performance review andwhat their experience from them was. This study is based on earlier research and literature,which describes the pre-schools activities, how they work and the documented goals they tryto accomplish. I also did eight interviews with Parents from two municipalities, which I theninterpreted based on my experience and understanding. The interviews focused on theparent?s description of their experience of how much influence on the work in their child'spre-school.

Background:Due to a more open climate in society for homosexual people several lesbian couples have given birth to children in their relations. Research has shown no differences between children in lesbian families and children in heterosexual families considering mental and social health. International research has also shown that lesbian Parents often have bad experiences from meetings with healthcare providers.Theaim of this study was to describe lesbian child families/familyplannings and the lesbian Parents experiences and expectations of the healthcare.Themethod for the study was qualitative interview with 9 lesbian Parents. The data was analysed by the queer theory heteronormative concept.Theresults of the research was that lesbian families considered themselves as a nuclear family and at the same time distanced themselves from the nuclear family concept. The findings showed that lesbian couples are involved in a very long process when they try to become Parents.

The thesis aims to study how rainbows families are being treated by the authorities and the surroundings. It focuses on how homosexual Parents are met in society. Although, homosexuals have the legal right to have a family and enter into marriage, the social norms are still far behind and rainbows families are seen as ?the others? and abnormal.  Earlier researches have been studding how the authorities still assumes that every family are living in a heterosexual family constellation. By this assumption they exclude families who are not living in a heterosexual family.

The overall aim of this study is to clarify the situation in school for children with language disorder from the Parents? perspective.Data were collected through five interviews with Parents who have children of different ages and with various diagnosis within the language disorder spectra. A qualitative method based on a narrative inquiry was used and each interview was based on a interview guide with the following themes: the child?s difficulties, starting school, the school?s pedagogy, homework, action plans, participation and the future.Each story has its own themes, but there are also themes that are common in all interviews. One common theme in the Parents? stories is that school has a lack of knowledge when it comes to language disorder.

Background:Due to a more open climate in society for homosexual people several lesbian couples have given birth to children in their relations. Research has shown no differences between children in lesbian families and children in heterosexual families considering mental and social health. International research has also shown that lesbian Parents often have bad experiences from meetings with healthcare providers.Theaim of this study was to describe lesbian child families/familyplannings and the lesbian Parents experiences and expectations of the healthcare.Themethod for the study was qualitative interview with 9 lesbian Parents. The data was analysed by the queer theory heteronormative concept.Theresults of the research was that lesbian families considered themselves as a nuclear family and at the same time distanced themselves from the nuclear family concept. The findings showed that lesbian couples are involved in a very long process when they try to become Parents.